This Map Shows What Each State Googled More Than Any Other in 2015

[liberal N proud]

Using data from Google Trends, they identified the term each state Googled more than any other state over the course of the year.





http://www.motherjones.com/mixed-media/2015/12/heres-what-each-state-googled-more-any-other-2015

[Indydem]

1. Nobody Googled Bernie?

Clearly this is a corporatist poll in favor of the 1%!

Blargh!

[Whiskeytide]

2. I don't think I'm buying this...

"Ebola" or some variant would have dominated more than just a couple of states in 2014. Certainly more than a celebrity death hoax, a TV show, or how to cheat at Flappy Bird. Maybe I just don't understand the criteria used - but that seems too far fetched.

[IDemo]

3. Me neither. CA - 'Volkswagen scandal' topped 'drought' and 'El Nino'?

[Hortensis]

4. My wonder too. Not too bizarre to be true, but!

GA topped out with "CDC"? Even assuming every conservative ran in crazed circles over ebola, would "CDC" really top "Mexican rapists" or "white racism" (we're 30% black here, folks), or even "Real Housewives of Atlanta"? I hope "whip dance" is real, though.

[NV Whino]

8. Um, we already know about drought and el niño

No need to google it.

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. It's *more than any other state*, nor 'more than anything else'

(and I presume this is 'relative to its population').

So you get the list for, say, 'fitbit', and South Dakota is at the top, so they put 'fitbit' there. 'Trump for President' was topped by South Carolina (dangerous place, obviously) so they've written that there. And so on. Only one state can come top for each phrase, so no phrase is repeated on the map (and in 2014, they couldn't find anything that Kansas googled more than anyone else, so they had to put 'nothing').

What does 'bae' mean, by the way? I genuinely have no idea.

[postulater]

6. Sure it's not Onion?

And I still don't know what bae means.

[mainer]

7. Proud to be from the state that googled "Amy Schumer"

Second only in coolness to the Washington googlers of Leonard Nimoy.

[NV Whino]

9. I think we've finally found "what's the matter with Kansas."

[Rex]

10. Urgh...Texas...why...BAD! BAD TEXAS BAD!

[cali]

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